期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 726, 期 -, 页码 5-25出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.208
关键词
biological fluid dynamics; low-Reynolds-number flows; mixing
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- ERC
We discuss the path of a tracer particle as a microswimmer moves past on an infinite, straight trajectory. If the tracer is sufficiently far from the path of the swimmer it moves in a closed loop. As the initial distance between the tracer and the path of the swimmer rho decreases, the tracer is displaced a small distance backwards (relative to the direction of the swimmer velocity). For much smaller tracer-swimmer separations, however, the tracer displacement becomes positive and diverges as rho -> 0. To quantify this behaviour we calculate the Darwin drift, the total volume swept out by a material sheet of tracers, initially perpendicular to the swimmer path, during the swimmer motion. We find that the drift can be written as the sum of a universal term which depends on the quadrupolar flow field of the swimmer, together with a non-universal contribution given by the sum of the volumes of the swimmer and its wake. The formula is compared to exact results for the squirmer model and to numerical calculations for a more realistic model swimmer.
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